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I had this on cassettes, every mission a different game. At least the magazine provided with the cassette had instructions so we could play with that. Me and my brother played it with our dad, I remember us reading the instructions, just talking off was a success! Now that I see it again, what a game for 1988...

I'd love to see a few reviews of absolute dogshit and see what you say about them. I'm thinking stuff like Karnov, Cobra, Chase HQ, WEC LeMans etc. Mix it up with some absolute turkeys every now and again. If you want to stick to good early games, Gyruss, Mr Do's Castle, Loco etc would all be great to hear your thoughts on.

I had a copy of this, but didn't have the manual, so I never got very far with it. As I recall, the design of the plane was based on a model kit released by one of the big plastic model companies. Nobody knew what the stealth fighter would look like, so they just created their own design.

The Amiga version was my first proper flight sim. That and F-117 are my absolute favourites.

It amazes me every time how much they can put into just 64kb.

I have to give a lot of credit to anyone who tries to push the old C64 beyond its intended capabilities. Considering the complexity it seems to move along at a reasonable pace graphically, though I'd like to see how it plays with an accelerator such as the CMD SuperCPU (at 20mhz) or via the clock speed increases available in most C64 emulators.

Man, I remember looking at the box art for this back in the day and being so jealous of C64 owners. 9I had a ZX Spectrum). I eventually played the excellent 16 bit versions (which I still enjoy today.) But now that I have finally bought a C64, it’s finally time for me to give this a go….

Whilst modern gamers might be horrified by frame rates etc.,I had a blast with it. Normally was bored stiff by most "sim" games,but greatly appreciated how you could have a beginner mode that left you pretty much invulnerable as far as landings etc went & you could get stuck into stealthing your way to targets & take them out. Like you say,apart from the security checks with the manual,the keyboard overlay was a must! Makes playing it on emulation a bit hit & miss now!

Relatively speaking the frame rate isn't that bad! I remember some flight sims on the Amiga with similar. Looks great for the C64!

The c64 era blows my mind on how creative, strange and different the games were. Now a days, pretty much everything is created according to a genre/subgenre standard. 99% of game devs in 2024 would not be able to conceive of such a wild and particular concept like Flunky, or so many other C64 games. It's a bit like watching the first ever films that were made, before the lexicon and conventions of genre, there is an era of more unrestrained creativity that's really novel.

Long marathons of playing this and Airborne Ranger to see how many missions I could complete. I had a photocopy of the overlay and had to figure out everything on my own since I didnt have the manual. After a few tries, I got the hang of it. Tons of fun shooting down F4s over Libya.

I had this,F15 strike Eagle 2 and 3, and Gunship. Microprose simulations were the best around by far.

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Really great game in my opinion :)

I really enjoyed this, an excellent shoot 'em up, especially for 1984. The rendition of Ride of The Valkyries really sets the atmosphere, this was before musicians like Rob Hubbard learnt to use the SID chip to it's full potential too.

impressive game! had no clue how to play simulators back then

Fantastic this was, along with 'Gunship' Microprose was spot on back then.

On cassette? Pretty impressive.

Honestly, as a simulator, this game was dreadful. Simplistic flight model, terrible vector graphics, and frame rate of 2-3 FPS 😁 However, it had something. Maybe because we were kids, and dreamed of becoming pilots. And this was the closest you could get . All those commands on keyboard just made thing look more real. You had to learn them to be successful, felt like you were accomplishing something. And when you played night mission in a dark room, somehow even that dreadful graphics felt genuine. You had your instruments, your mission, and hum of engines in background. Imagination would fill in the gaps left by game and modest 8-bit computer.

I loved Microprose games. I had this first on C64 on cassette, it took ages to play just one mission. I got a 1541 and the disc version, played it even more. Actually pretty fast loading. Later I replayed all the missions on my ST. I loved it! Red Storm Rising, Gunship and Silent Service was also fantastic games!

I loved flight sims on the commodore. From my first, Pilot64 and all the way through until i swapped systems in the late 80s. Ace of Aces was superb, Gunship was mind blowing for it's time and love PSF too. Microprose was the literal god of sims!! Every game packed with a large manual and all the information you needed from how to fly down to the tech specs of the weapons. Such a great time to be alive. I dare you to play Pilot64 and see if you can land, i managed it once! lol.

200mm cannon 😂. I had this casette version. Loading took while

I could see myself spending hours and hours on this as a child....with no clue about what I'm doing lol.

I’m always amazed at the skill of the programmers in the 80’s to fit so much into such a tiny weeny amount of memory. Modern machines and PC’s have so much memory upwards of 16gb, the C64 had 0.00064gb (I think) and some of that was ROM so not even that much. Truly incredible. Looks like a great game but I never played it.

I not only played this game, I still have the model of the F-19 sitting on my shelf.

Loved it's predecessor Gunship. Sank a lot of time in that one. Incredibly polished, and then some ('C128 enhanced). Great to see that MicroProse kept raising the bar

Keyboard overlays are nice aren't they? Also helps with immersion. As does the doorstop manual. Not really my cup of tea this but I do love that it exists. As if that makes any sense. It's definitely a stellar effort from Microprose on the C64! 👍

I think I remember trying this game... and being completely lost. Not having the manual... because of the way I obtained it. LOL It wasn't like Skyfox where you could just pick it up and play it without knowing much about it. I would imagine this game, however, would have much more to offer for someone who had the instructions and knew what they were doing.

Had a friend who was obssessed with this game. Didn't play it myself but enjoyed watching him play it.

Didn't see this one coming 🤣🤣

MPS made tape versions of these complex simulators during 80's. Disk-based software can get quite serious and complex, but having this kind of complexity on tapes - is extraordinary. This one also worked on ZX Spectrum 48K tapes. Cudos to Amiga, but it was 512K RAM machine, and 880K fast floppy drive. This game was designed to work on kitchen toasters and rolling cassette ribbon! Now, that is something that gives me everlasting thrill. Cramming so much into small machine, with so little resources. Microprose ruled the 8-bit world. No company managed to give so much... dignity (!) - to these small 8-bitters & tape drives. Simulating these things really made one feel its little modest "gaming" computer was heavy real time data processing system, doing extremely serious stuff. And being also enormous learning platform about everything out there in the real world. I mean, operating state of the art machines / weaponry and diving into strategies and tactics in missions that the whole world may depend on... absolutely mind blowing. Politics, military, engineering, controlling, piloting... again, on my cassette?? Wow!

Microprose was playing on another level in that era.

Didn't understand this as a kid, now I love it. great graphics

I really enjoyed this game as a kid.

Was a bit flight sim fan. From F15, F16, F117A and a bunch of other. Always enjoyed going through the 100 plus page manual and the keyboard overlay was also so helpful in a mid fight mission. Many on the old Commodore 64, then the Amiga versions and some PC versions also. Always inverted...

unbelievable what the c64 was capable of... for that few k of ram thats really impressive.

Played it many hours on the C64. The big thing Gunship had over this was filled polygons for hills and mountain ranges. Microprose ruled back then^^

I regret selling my copy yrs ago. I got it as a bday gift. Great game

Having grown up in the 80s and 90s with these flight sims, I get absolutely lost with the flight sims today.

Wow! I used to love F-19 and F-117 on the PC, but never knew about this Commodore precursor.

Great game!

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I had this but it was called Mad Flunky on the Alternative Software label. Originally, it was just Flunky.

The mini game aspect kind of reminds me of Lazy Jones...I used to play that a LOT.

Presumably multi-load?

Was thinking about this game yesterday and what do I find on my feed this morning? I’m definitely keeping up with the Cheeky Commodore Gamer!

Was this converted from zx spectrum? , gfx look like it

Id forgotten about this one. Me and my dad used to play this back in the day. Thanks for the great memories mate